- Click here to pull your own copy of the novel into Notability. You will need this for reading the novel outside of class and annotating the text as you read.
- All activities for the novel will be listed here. Pay close attention to when and where to turn assignments in. Some will go in your blue packets, others will go to Google Classroom, some assignments will be in Nearpod, and others will be turned in directly on paper. It's your job to know which assignments go where.
Blue Packets: You will be given a blue packet filled with Cornell Notes paper for each chapter. For every chapter, you will need: - To write at least 5 pieces of important information about what happened. - 1 direct quote from the text and a short description of why you liked it or why it was important to the text. - 3 questions written down the left hand side of the page. These should be taken from Costa's Levels of Questioning. 1 Level-1, 1 Level-2, and 1 Level-3 question. - An answer to the essential question (these will be provided) in the summary box. Click or tap here for essential questions for every chapter. Chapter 1 modeled here Chapter 2 modeled here
Activity 1: Vocabulary Use this Frayer Model Template for the following 10 vocabulary words for the first part of the novel. Turn words into Google Classroom when finished, all on one document please. assuage, malevolent, taciturn, immune, inquisitive, placid, indigenous, amiable, compromise, nebulous
Activity 4: Jigsaw Download this Jigsaw Graphic Organizer into Notability. It is also located in Google Classroom in the assignment labeled 'TKAM_Activity_1_Jigsaw'. You will turn your completed research sheet in there. Follow the in-class directions carefully to complete the activity. You will be split into groups to research the following topics: 1. The Ku Klux Klan (helpful research links: 1. and 2.)
2. The Great Depression (helpful research links: 1. and 2.)
3. Jim Crow Laws (helpful research links: 1. and 2.)
4. 1930's Culture (helpful research links: 1. and 2.)
Activity 5 : Vocabulary Use this Frayer Model Template for 10 of the following words for chapters 4-12. Turn words into Google Classroom when finished, all on one document please. auspicious, wrought, tacit, benevolence, edification, kudzu, prowess, ramshackle, malignant, cleave, meditative, morphodite, perplex, gastric, lineament, invective, jubilant, rectitude, nether, undulate, beholden, frivolous, unceiled, asafoetida, haughty, austere Remember to create your own sentences in the 'sentence' box. Copying sentences from online dictionary resources does not show me that you understand the word.
Activity 6: Close Reading 3 Use this excerpt from the 9th chapter to write the attached paragraph about Atticus.
Activity 7: Writing Prompt This activity should be completed in Google Docs and submitted to Google Classroom to the assignment labeled 'TKAM_Activity_7_One-Page'. Students will choose one of the following two prompts to write about: 1. Emerging Themes 2. Mad Dog Reporter Use this planning sheet to help organize your essay.
Activity 8: Vocab for ch. 13-18: Pick 15 words from the bank and create a crossword puzzle using them. Steps for success: 1. On paper, write 15 of these words and a brief definition or a few synonyms. 2. Use this website to enter your information. 3. Save a copy of your crossword when finished (tap image> save image) and return it to Google Classroom to the assignment labeled 'TKAM_Activity_8_Crossword.' Word bank: contemptuous, indignant, contentious, haughty, proclaimed, rotogravure, ecclesiastical, impediments, garish, indecision, ethics, innate, deposit, propelled, customary, voile, thunderstruck, dawned, novel, aggravate, phantom, enamore, uncompromising, forthright, denunciation, austere, spite, sluggish, extract, giddy, flared, formidable, dispelled, affirmative, changelings, mandrake roots, abstract, speculation, curtness, isolation, crackle, allergic, squirm, dumpy, obscure, carnal, formerly, edification, stance, gouging, brawl, adjoining, resilient, coiled, negligee, tentative, reverent, emerge, perish, devour, narrative, ventilator, manacle, infallible, scrub, diction, defendant, placid, foolproof, postponement, begrudge, glee, venue, inaudible, criteria, pronouncement, interval, linotype, peered, venerable, miniature, Gothic, battlements, buttresses, facade, ecclesiastical, wedged, detractors, ominous, subjected, crisis, evaluation, oblivious, aspect, succinct, shrieked, lingering, acquiescence, defiance, burly, justification, prospects, sullen, aggregation, uncouth, idiocy, impassive, ramshackle, husky, encumbered, pace, fey, subpoena, elucidate, solicitor, multitudes, unobtrusive, acrimonious, controversy, eccentricities, connivance, extracted, litigants, scampered, corroborating, amiably, turbulent, fluctuations, prosperity, equity, congenital, indigenous, corrugated, gleaning, dictum, smugly, pantomime, ambidextrous, lavations, chifferobe, mollified, perpetual, chronic, neutrality, pilgrimage, involuntary, arid, detached, constructionist, severed, spittoon, exodus
To view before chapter 15:
Activity9: - Storyboard - You will be assigned a scene from the book so far, and you will create a storyboard for your assigned pages. You will have two choices for how you will make it: 1. Use storyboardthat.com. Create an account using your Google information and make sure to save your work when completed. Turn in a .pdf of the final copy to Google Classroom in the assignment folder labeled 'TKAM_Activity_9_Storyboard.' 2. Use this blank storyboard page. Pull it into Notability, work on it there and submit to Google classroom in the assignment folder labeled 'TKAM_Activity_9_Storyboard.'
Activity 10: Making Predictions: - Using this sheet, Predict the outcome of Tom's trial. Focus on the 'why' part of the questions and make sure to add textual evidence to support your answer.
Practice resource - Jake Briggance closing argument:
Activity 12: Compare the novel to the movie 'A Time To Kill': What common themes are apparent in both? What parallels can you draw? Fill this graphic organizer out as you watch. Writing Prompt Here
Activity 13: QVD For this activity, you will create a QVD for any part of the trial in the novel. A QVD is set up like this this: Page 1, the front of the 'book' : Quote - Any quote from any chapter. Page 2-3, the middle two pages: Visual Representation - if the book had a picture, graph, chart, Wordle, etc.. for your quote, what would it be? Page 4, the back page - A one-paragraph description of what your visual representation is. Questions to consider: What is going on in the picture? Why did you represent the quote this way? Need a quote? Try here or here.
Activity 14: 'I Am Poem'* Using this template, pick a character from the novel. From that character's perspective, fill out the 'I Am Poem'. Don't mention the character's name at all throughout the poem. Put yourself in his/her shoes for this activity. Be empathetic! *Extra Credit is available for this activity. Ask me how you can get it.
Activity 15: Marking Text Article See article here and follow directions for marking text and answering questions.
Activity 16: The mockingbird as a symbol The mockingbird represents an important idea throughout the novel. Using the following three websites, do some research on this topic and be ready to share out your findings with the class. 1. 2. 3. You will be able to use any notes that you create today on the final. Your notes will be the only resource you're allowed to have with you for the exam.
Activity 17: Fakebook a character Create an account here and have fun creating a social media page for any character from the book. - Checklist for success: - Accurate character picture - At least 5 posts relevant to the plot/ending of the book - 5 friends with accurate pictures - Any other fillers the page asks for
Final Project: You will have a choice of the following three ideas for a final project. This may be done independently, with one partner, or with a group of three. No groups with more than 3 students. All projects will be presented December 18-20.
1. Select one of the following historical events from the following list (or have another one of your choosing approved by me): Harper Lee, Truman Capote, the Scottsboro Trials, Jim Crow Laws, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Great Depression, or the symbol of the mockingbird as used in the novel. You will: - Research your topic - Create a poster or Spark Video (App in Self Service) that contains the following items:
At least 10-15 facts about your topic
At least 3 pictures about your topic
A works cited page that correctly lists websites that were used
2. Create Boo's Diary You may use original drawings, pictures from magazines, small objects, or simply write at least 7 entries from Boo's perspective throughout the novel. Questions to consider for the diary:
What do you think Boo is thinking as he moves through the events of the story and his important role in the plot?
How does he see those events?
What does he think is happening?
This may be presented as a poster or done on Spark Video (App in Self Service).
3. Present the final climactic scenes from Boo Radley's or Bob Ewell's perspective. How might one of these characters have told the story differently? Must be done as a poster or Spark Video (App in Self Service) and contain no less than 10 ideas with text and pictures.
Activity ?: Courtroom Vocabulary In preparation for our mock trial and the movie A Time To Kill, use the Frayer Model for the following courtroom related words: affidavit, allegation, appeal, continuance, counsel, deposition, hearsay, indictment, plaintiff, sequester (Hint: use this website to help)
By: Harper Lee
Book Covers:
- Click here to pull your own copy of the novel into Notability. You will need this for reading the novel outside of class and annotating the text as you read.
- All activities for the novel will be listed here. Pay close attention to when and where to turn assignments in. Some will go in your blue packets, others will go to Google Classroom, some assignments will be in Nearpod, and others will be turned in directly on paper. It's your job to know which assignments go where.
Blue Packets:
You will be given a blue packet filled with Cornell Notes paper for each chapter. For every chapter, you will need:
- To write at least 5 pieces of important information about what happened.
- 1 direct quote from the text and a short description of why you liked it or why it was important to the text.
- 3 questions written down the left hand side of the page. These should be taken from Costa's Levels of Questioning. 1 Level-1, 1 Level-2, and 1 Level-3 question.
- An answer to the essential question (these will be provided) in the summary box. Click or tap here for essential questions for every chapter.
Chapter 1 modeled here
Chapter 2 modeled here
Activity 1: Vocabulary
Use this Frayer Model Template for the following 10 vocabulary words for the first part of the novel. Turn words into Google Classroom when finished, all on one document please.
assuage, malevolent, taciturn, immune, inquisitive, placid, indigenous, amiable, compromise, nebulous
Activity 2: Close Reading 1
Use this excerpt from the first chapter to write the attached paragraph about stereotyping and labeling.
Activity 3: Close Reading 2
Use this excerpt from the third chapter to write the attached paragraph about Calpurnia.
Activity 4: Jigsaw
Download this Jigsaw Graphic Organizer into Notability. It is also located in Google Classroom in the assignment labeled 'TKAM_Activity_1_Jigsaw'. You will turn your completed research sheet in there. Follow the in-class directions carefully to complete the activity.
You will be split into groups to research the following topics:
1. The Ku Klux Klan (helpful research links: 1. and 2.)
2. The Great Depression (helpful research links: 1. and 2.)
3. Jim Crow Laws (helpful research links: 1. and 2.)
4. 1930's Culture (helpful research links: 1. and 2.)
Activity 5 : Vocabulary
Use this Frayer Model Template for 10 of the following words for chapters 4-12. Turn words into Google Classroom when finished, all on one document please.
auspicious, wrought, tacit, benevolence, edification, kudzu, prowess, ramshackle, malignant, cleave, meditative, morphodite, perplex, gastric, lineament, invective, jubilant, rectitude, nether, undulate, beholden, frivolous, unceiled, asafoetida, haughty, austere
Remember to create your own sentences in the 'sentence' box. Copying sentences from online dictionary resources does not show me that you understand the word.
Activity 6: Close Reading 3
Use this excerpt from the 9th chapter to write the attached paragraph about Atticus.
Activity 7: Writing Prompt
This activity should be completed in Google Docs and submitted to Google Classroom to the assignment labeled 'TKAM_Activity_7_One-Page'.
Students will choose one of the following two prompts to write about:
1. Emerging Themes
2. Mad Dog Reporter
Use this planning sheet to help organize your essay.
Activity 8: Vocab for ch. 13-18:
Pick 15 words from the bank and create a crossword puzzle using them.
Steps for success:
1. On paper, write 15 of these words and a brief definition or a few synonyms.
2. Use this website to enter your information.
3. Save a copy of your crossword when finished (tap image> save image) and return it to Google Classroom to the assignment labeled 'TKAM_Activity_8_Crossword.'
Word bank:
contemptuous, indignant, contentious, haughty, proclaimed, rotogravure, ecclesiastical, impediments, garish, indecision, ethics, innate, deposit, propelled, customary, voile, thunderstruck, dawned, novel, aggravate, phantom, enamore, uncompromising, forthright, denunciation, austere, spite, sluggish, extract, giddy, flared, formidable, dispelled, affirmative, changelings, mandrake roots, abstract, speculation, curtness, isolation, crackle, allergic, squirm, dumpy, obscure, carnal, formerly, edification, stance, gouging, brawl, adjoining, resilient, coiled, negligee, tentative, reverent, emerge, perish, devour, narrative, ventilator, manacle, infallible, scrub, diction, defendant, placid, foolproof, postponement, begrudge, glee, venue, inaudible, criteria, pronouncement, interval, linotype, peered, venerable, miniature, Gothic, battlements, buttresses, facade, ecclesiastical, wedged, detractors, ominous, subjected, crisis, evaluation, oblivious, aspect, succinct, shrieked, lingering, acquiescence, defiance, burly, justification, prospects, sullen, aggregation, uncouth, idiocy, impassive, ramshackle, husky, encumbered, pace, fey, subpoena, elucidate, solicitor, multitudes, unobtrusive, acrimonious, controversy, eccentricities, connivance, extracted, litigants, scampered, corroborating, amiably, turbulent, fluctuations, prosperity, equity, congenital, indigenous, corrugated, gleaning, dictum, smugly, pantomime, ambidextrous, lavations, chifferobe, mollified, perpetual, chronic, neutrality, pilgrimage, involuntary, arid, detached, constructionist, severed, spittoon, exodus
To view before chapter 15:
Activity 9:
- Storyboard - You will be assigned a scene from the book so far, and you will create a storyboard for your assigned pages. You will have two choices for how you will make it:
1. Use storyboardthat.com. Create an account using your Google information and make sure to save your work when completed. Turn in a .pdf of the final copy to Google Classroom in the assignment folder labeled 'TKAM_Activity_9_Storyboard.'
2. Use this blank storyboard page. Pull it into Notability, work on it there and submit to Google classroom in the assignment folder labeled 'TKAM_Activity_9_Storyboard.'
Activity 10: Making Predictions:
- Using this sheet, Predict the outcome of Tom's trial. Focus on the 'why' part of the questions and make sure to add textual evidence to support your answer.
Activity 11: SMELL Method
CNotes for SMELL Method
Using the SMELL method, complete this close reading activity for Atticus' closing argument:
Practice resource - Jake Briggance closing argument:
Activity 12: Compare the novel to the movie 'A Time To Kill':
What common themes are apparent in both? What parallels can you draw? Fill this graphic organizer out as you watch.
Writing Prompt Here
Activity 13: QVD
For this activity, you will create a QVD for any part of the trial in the novel. A QVD is set up like this this:
Page 1, the front of the 'book' : Quote - Any quote from any chapter.
Page 2-3, the middle two pages: Visual Representation - if the book had a picture, graph, chart, Wordle, etc.. for your quote, what would it be?
Page 4, the back page - A one-paragraph description of what your visual representation is. Questions to consider: What is going on in the picture? Why did you represent the quote this way?
Need a quote? Try here or here.
Activity 14: 'I Am Poem'*
Using this template, pick a character from the novel. From that character's perspective, fill out the 'I Am Poem'. Don't mention the character's name at all throughout the poem. Put yourself in his/her shoes for this activity. Be empathetic!
*Extra Credit is available for this activity. Ask me how you can get it.
Activity 15: Marking Text Article
See article here and follow directions for marking text and answering questions.
Activity 16: The mockingbird as a symbol
The mockingbird represents an important idea throughout the novel. Using the following three websites, do some research on this topic and be ready to share out your findings with the class.
1.
2.
3.
You will be able to use any notes that you create today on the final. Your notes will be the only resource you're allowed to have with you for the exam.
Activity 17: Fakebook a character
Create an account here and have fun creating a social media page for any character from the book.
- Checklist for success:
- Accurate character picture
- At least 5 posts relevant to the plot/ending of the book
- 5 friends with accurate pictures
- Any other fillers the page asks for
Final Project:
You will have a choice of the following three ideas for a final project. This may be done independently, with one partner, or with a group of three. No groups with more than 3 students. All projects will be presented December 18-20.
1. Select one of the following historical events from the following list (or have another one of your choosing approved by me):
Harper Lee, Truman Capote, the Scottsboro Trials, Jim Crow Laws, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Great Depression, or the symbol of the mockingbird as used in the novel.
You will:
- Research your topic
- Create a poster or Spark Video (App in Self Service) that contains the following items:
2. Create Boo's Diary
You may use original drawings, pictures from magazines, small objects, or simply write at least 7 entries from Boo's perspective throughout the novel. Questions to consider for the diary:
- What do you think Boo is thinking as he moves through the events of the story and his important role in the plot?
- How does he see those events?
- What does he think is happening?
This may be presented as a poster or done on Spark Video (App in Self Service).3. Present the final climactic scenes from Boo Radley's or Bob Ewell's perspective. How might one of these characters have told the story differently? Must be done as a poster or Spark Video (App in Self Service) and contain no less than 10 ideas with text and pictures.
Alternate activities:
Activity ?: Slogans
Activity ?: Courtroom Vocabulary
In preparation for our mock trial and the movie A Time To Kill, use the Frayer Model for the following courtroom related words:
affidavit, allegation, appeal, continuance, counsel, deposition, hearsay, indictment, plaintiff, sequester
(Hint: use this website to help)